What we learned from a new book about a vigilante group that chased down local bootleggers and extortionists in the early 1930s.

You go out to restaurants to experience the gracious rituals of hospitality, not to feel like you’ve engaged in a transactional relationship. You and your hosts both have the same goals — that you ...

The ‘Top Chef’ winner’s new breakfast, lunch, and dinner café is just the versatile place the West Loop needed.

Back in 2019, you wrote to Chicago priests, saying that “threats of broad enforcement actions by ICE are meant to terrorize communities.” You urged the clergy not to let them into churches without IDs ...

When I first started interviewing Chicago youth about their interactions with the police, I never expected that I would spend a year and a half embedded with one of the most notorious gangs in the ...

Invite some color into your life with Kalapriya’s Holi Celebration, held at Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens. Wear your ...

The first time I saw Kevin Coval read, I thought he was black. It was the fall of 2015, and I was sitting at the back of a dim Art Institute auditorium. Onstage, Coval had just joined a jazz sextet ...

What to do in Chicago this weekend. As a musician, the author had performed with some big acts in big venues. Then came the pandemic.

Last fall, my wife and I traveled with our daughter and her Indian inamorato to Mumbai, where he introduced us to some of his favorite restaurants. Among them was a famous Parsi spot called Britannia ...

Wilfred Benítez stands in the middle of a crowded ring at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, one of his home island’s largest venues. He’s wearing a robe with his name stitched on the back, awaiting the judges’ ...

Whenever I climb the worn, dimly-lit cement stairwell to Chris’s Billiards, the pool hall at Milwaukee and Wilson, I feel the ghost of Waterdog, the junky hustler who slept in a Lincoln Town Car in ...